LATER

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13852, 2 September 1918, Page 4

LATER

BOLSHEVIK MINISTER ASSASSINATED. THE MURDERERS ARRESTED. (Reuter's Telegrams.) Received Sept. 2, 12.45 a.m. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 1. A Petrograd message via Berlin states that the Commissary of Home Affairs, M. Unitski, has been assassinated. His murderers have b«en arrested. BREST-LITOVSK TREATY. FURTHER PROVISIONS DISCLOSED. INDENMITY OF £300,000,000. ■ (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received Sept. 2, 9.15 a.m. COPENHAGEN, August 81. Additional provisions of the Brest Litovsk treaty provide that Esthonia and Livonia shall fie independent but Russia has secured a commercial arrangement with the Baltic States. Russia also acknowledges the State of Georgia. Russia gives Germany the greater part of the naphtha production in the Baku district, and also pays Germany an indemnification of six mil. liard marks (£300,000,000). CZECHO-ALLIED VICTORY. / _____ BOLSHEVIKS DRIVEN BACK 15 MILES. MORE ARMS AND MUNITIONS WANTED. BEFORE WINTER SETS IN. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received Sept. 2. 10.25 a.m. NEW YORK, Sept. 1. The United Press Vladivostock correspondent states that the Entente and Czccho-Slovak troops fought the 801-. sheviks and Red Guards on the Ussuri river, and drove the enemy back 15 miles, taking prisoners and booty. The New York Times' Washington correspondent states that information has been received stating that it is imperative that arms and ammunition are sent to the Czecho-Slovaks before winter sets in six weeks hence. It may be necessary to send an expeditionary force through Manchuria, via Khailar Turpi, towards China, thence along the Siberian railway to Lake Baikal and Irkutsk. The State Department has recpived dispatches from the American Charge d'Affaires in Stockholm, saying that lie has received telegrams from the American Consul in Moscow, Mr Poole, saying that 95 Americans have left Moscow for Petrograd. Mr Poole is remaining in Moscow.

ANOTHER BOLSHEVIK DEFEAT. EFFECT OF ALLIED PROPAGANDA. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received Sept. 2, 10.5 a.m. NEW YORK, Sept. 1. The New York Times' Pekin correspondent states that General Semenoff has captured Borze station. The Bolsheviks are bombing villages and retreating along the Onon River. The New York World's Washington correspondent states that official ad. vice from Russia states that the flow of Russian recruits to the German army has ceased since the arrival of the Entente troops at Vladivostock and the spread of Entente propaganda work. New York Press dispatches from Archangel state that Nicholas Vassilovitch Tschaikowsky, president of the now Sovereign Government of Northern Russia, has appealed for more Allied troops as a nucleus for the formation of a Russian army to fight the Germans and Bolsheviks. The United Press' Archangel correspondent states that, according to information received by the American Ambassador, Mr Francis, the body of ex-Emperor Nicholas was not found when the Czecho-Slovak troops entered Ekaterinburg. Nicholas was killed by the commandant when the soldiers refused to shoot him. COPENHAGEN, August 31. A Finnish newspaper states that Grand Duke Dimitri Paulovitch has joined the British troops in Russia. He is mentioned as a candidate for tho Russian throne.

THE ATTACK ON LENIN. MADE BY A WOMAN. (Reuter's Telegrams.) Received Sept. 2, 11.5 a.m. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 1. A Moscow message states that Lenin after addressing a meeting of labourers, was stopped by two women, who discussed the recent decrees in regard to the importation of foodstuffs into Moscow. During the interview a young girl of the intellectual class fired three shots, wounding Lenin in the shoulder and lungs. The girl, who was arrested, declared that she was a social revolutionary. Lenin's condition is serious. Another account states that the shots were fired by two women Social Revolutionaries. LENIN DYING. Received September 2 1.55 p.m. COPENHAGEN, Sep. 1. Lenin is dying.